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Crunching the numbers in search of a greener cloud

Crunching the numbers in search of a greener cloud

By Paul Miller on July 17, 2012

Although sometimes portrayed as a big computer in the sky, the reality of cloud computing is far more mundane. Clouds run on physical hardware, located in data centres, connected to one another and to their customers via high speed networks. All of that hardware must be powered and cooled, and all of those offices must […]

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